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corporally

corporally

1 7.2
In a way that you can feel with your body
  • adverb
  • /ˈkɔːrpərəli/
  • Formal
translation icon : corporalmente
  • Quite a few seem to have been whipped or otherwise corporally punished.
  • corporally punished

Examples

  • Angels are less material, less corporally burdened creatures than Adam and Eve, and therefore within this system, therefore they're superior.

  • For example, how should a school counselor work with a student who is corporally punished by her family because the family believes she is devil-possessed?

    Academic text (2008)

  • The Dominant may flog, spank, whip, or corporally punish the Submissive as he sees fit, for purposes of discipline or for his personal enjoyment.

    Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

  • The dominant way is to flog, spank, whip, or corporally punish the submissive as he sees fit, for purposes of discipline, for his own personal enjoyment, or for any other reason.

    Blog text (13)

  • Carson quotes Thomas Cranmer, "figuratively, Christ is in the bread and wine, and spiritually he is in them that worthily eat and drink the bread and wine; but really, carnally, and corporally he is only in heaven, from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead." 53

    Blog text (8)

  • I conjure, bind, and charge thee, in the name of Lucifer, that thou should punish and torment the disobedient Choronzon until he comes corporally to my sights and obeys my commands and charges whatsoever I command and charge him.

    Mayday (2019)

  • Students often react when they are corporally punished at school, leading to discussions about its effectiveness.

  • In some cultures, children are corporally disciplined as a form of punishment for misbehavior.

  • The debate over whether to allow corporally punishing students in schools continues to escalate.

Synonyms

physically
vscorporally
552 2.1

Relating to the body rather than the mind or feelings

focuses on bodily manner rather than broad material aspects
corporeally
vscorporally
  • Formal
8.1

In a physical way, not as a spirit or idea

is the alternate spelling with identical bodily meaning
bodywise
vscorporally
  • Informal
7.8

In a way that relates to the body rather than the mind

describes bodily manner or action not body condition or state

Antonyms

mentally
395 3.2

Happens in the mind rather than in the body

spiritually
68 4.8

In a way that relates to your inner feelings or beliefs

How Physical

physically
552 2.1
corporally
  • Formal
1 7.2
mentally
395 3.2

Surface Forms

corporally positive

Morphology

corporally = corporal (transparent) = corporal + ly

Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'corporal', yielding the meaning 'in a bodily manner'.

Etymology

The word corporally comes from the root corp- meaning 'body', the same root you see in corpse, so it means 'in a physical way' or doing something with the body.